If you are sanguine about a situation, especially a difficult one, you are confident and cheerful that everything will work out the way you want it to.

To subvert something, like a government, is to try to destroy or damage its power and influence; to subvert someone is to corrupt her morals, loyalty, or faith.

Severe problems, difficulties, or suffering experienced in a particular situation are all examples of tribulations.

If you do something in an unwitting fashion you didn’t know you were doing it, hence it was unintentional on your part.

Vicissitudes can be unexpected or simply normal changes and variations that happen during life.

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Noun

serendipity

ser-uhn-DIP-i-tee

Context

Running into my friend, whom I hadn’t seen in years, was a moment of serendipity or pure luck. He himself had had an amazing run of serendipity or fortunate discovery in turn. For instance, on a backpacking trip through Mexico, he accidentally stumbled upon a major archeological find—talk about serendipity!

Memory Hook

Serious End of Pity Wouldn't it be great if, by serendipity, someone discovered a serious way to endpity by fixing all the woes in the world?

Examples

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
— Peter McWilliams

There’s so much of modern life that makes it preferable to the vaunted good old days — better hygiene products and power steering leap to mind — but in these disposable days of now and the future, the concept of serendipity is endangered.
—The New York Times

To demonstrate the importance of serendipity, we've put together a list of 10 examples of unintentional discoveries that too often we find ourselves taking for granted.
—Newsvine

Don’t discount the value of serendipity As with many things in business, great sales opportunities sometimes land in your lap when you least expect it, and in ways you never could have planned for.
—USA Today